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All topicsBritish conquest of Nigeria · 20Colonial administration in Nigeria · 18Decolonisation and African unity · 21Early centres of civilisation · 19Eastern and southern Africa · 18External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans · 20Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states · 21Nationalism and independence · 20Nigeria since independence · 26Oyo, Benin and the southern states · 23Partition, colonial rule and resistance in Africa · 17Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century · 18The colonial economy · 19The Nigeria area: land and early peoples · 19The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate · 20West Africa in the nineteenth century · 19

  1. Question 281· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    Sokoto town was founded in 1809 by

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  2. Question 282· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    Ilorin became a Fulani emirate under the Sokoto Caliphate when power passed from Afonja to

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  3. Question 283· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The first Fulani emir of Zaria (Zazzau) after the jihad was

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  4. Question 284· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The Battle of Tabkin Kwotto (1804) was

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  5. Question 285· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    Uthman dan Fodio's brother, who later ruled the western emirates from Gwandu, was

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  6. Question 286· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The leaders of the Sokoto Jihad were mainly

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  7. Question 287· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The town of Sokoto, later the capital of the caliphate, was founded in 1809 by

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  8. Question 288· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The jihad's leaders justified it as a struggle against

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  9. Question 289· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    Ilorin became an emirate after

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  10. Question 290· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The ruler of each emirate within the Sokoto Caliphate was called the

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  11. Question 291· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The scholar who led Borno's resistance to the Sokoto jihadists was

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  12. Question 292· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The Sokoto Caliphate was administered through

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  13. Question 293· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    After the jihad, the eastern part of the caliphate was ruled from Sokoto by Muhammad Bello, while the western part was ruled from Gwandu by

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  14. Question 294· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The Sokoto Jihad was launched in 1804 by

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  15. Question 295· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    A political effect of the jihad was

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  16. Question 296· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    One cause of the Sokoto Jihad was the

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  17. Question 297· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    In 1804 Uthman dan Fodio and his followers made their hijra from Degel to

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  18. Question 298· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The Sultan of Sokoto bears the title

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  19. Question 299· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The Sokoto Jihad began as a conflict between Uthman dan Fodio and the ruler of

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  20. Question 300· West Africa in the nineteenth century· JAMB

    Samori Toure's empire was based among the

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